Reynaldo Bignone

Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone (21 January 1928-7 March 2018) was President of Argentina from 1 July 1982 to 10 December 1983, succeeding Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean and preceding Raul Alfonsin.

Biography
Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone was born in Moron, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 21 January 1928, and he joined the Army at the age of 19. In 1982, he took over the leadership of the military junta from Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, and he presided over a collapsing dictatorship which had lost popular support due to the defeat in the Falklands War and an economic crisis. He ultimately decided to hold elections to return the country to democracy, and Radical Civic Union leader Raul Alfonsin was elected President in 1983. In 2010, Bignone was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the Dirty War, and he died in 2018 at the age of 90.